PRESS RELEASE
January 17th 2011
Next decisive step towards a single European Electricity Market
The NorNed cable successfully joins the interregional market coupling between Central-Western-Europe and the Nordic countries
The project partners of Central West European (CWE1) and the Nordic countries2 are pleased to announce that the next significant step towards the integration of the European electricity market has been taken.
The integration of the NorNed cable since January 12th has been successfully achieved within the interregional market coupling between France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Germany (Central-West region) on one side, and Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Denmark on the other. The inclusion of the NorNed with the undersea DC-link between Norway and the Netherlands is the final milestone of the Interim Tight Volume Coupling (ITVC) between the two regional markets.
The CWE price coupling and the ITVC solution have successfully started on 9 November 2010, connecting the existing volume coupling between Germany and the Nordic market with the new price coupling initiative in the Central-Western region. The two projects integrate a day-ahead market of more than 1,800 Terawatt hours of power production and cover approximately 60% of electricity consumption in Europe. The market coupling projects will be a significant contributor to a more efficient European power market to the benefit of all European citizens.
With ambitious work, enormous efforts and the close cooperation between the 17 involved partners, the ITVC market coupling has now been fully completed. The Transmission System Operators and Power Exchanges will continue their work towards a future pan-European price coupling.
1CWE region is the European region which includes Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Germany, the Netherlands 2Nordic region is the region which includes Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Estonia Page 1 / 3
Press Contacts:
Contact Person Phone number & e-mail 50Hertz Transmission Jens Mattausch +49 30 5150 4583 GmbH [email protected] +49 30 5150 3417 Volker Kamm [email protected]
Amprion Marian Rappl +49 231 438 3679, marian.rappl@amprion.net
APX-ENDEX Sanna-Maaria Mattila +31 20 305 4000, [email protected]
Belpex Rob Loos +32 2 546 70 57, [email protected]
Creos Danielle Schmit +352 26 24 80 77, [email protected]
Elia Eva Suls +32 477 48 80 09, [email protected] Lise Mulpas +32 478 65 28 90, [email protected]
EMCC Vivien Neubert +49 40 36 90 54 60, [email protected]
EnBW Kirsten Koenigs +49 711 128-2271, Transportnetze k.koenigs@enbw.com
Energinet.dk Klaus Thostrup +45 23 33 88 16, kth@energinet.dk
EPEX Spot Wolfram Vogel +33 1 73 03 61 32, [email protected]
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Fingrid Risto Lindroos +358 40 501 9996, risto.lindroos@fingrid.fi
Nord Pool Spot Hans Randen +47 67 10 91 00, [email protected]
RTE Alexia Rière + 331 41 02 15 69, [email protected]
Statnett SF Tore Granli +47 915 15 991 [email protected]
Svenska Kraftnät Maria Jäderberg +46 8 475 8010, [email protected]
TenneT TSO BV Jelle Wils +31 26 373 13 75, j.wils@tennet.org
TenneT TSO GmbH Joëlle Bouillon +49 921 915 4046 [email protected]
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